Thomas J. Stipanowich is William H. Webster Chair
in Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University, as well
as Academic Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (ranked
number one among academic dispute resolution programs each of the last nine
years by U.S. News & World Report), where he teaches courses in negotiation,
mediation, arbitration, international arbitration and dispute resolution, contracts
and remedies. He is a leading scholar, speaker and trainer on conflict resolution
topics as well as an experienced arbitrator and mediator. He is co-author, with
Professors Ian Macneil and Richard Speidel, of the groundbreaking five-volume
treatise Federal Arbitration Law: Agreements, Awards & Remedies under the Federal
Arbitration Act, cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and many other federal and
state courts, and named Best New Legal Book by the Association of American
Publishers. He also co-authored Resolving Disputes: Theory, Law and Practice
(2nd Ed 2010), a law school course book supplemented by many practical
exercises. He is the author of many other much-cited publications on arbitration
and dispute resolution, and has twice won the CPR Institute's First Prize for
Professional Articles (1987 and 2009)-most recently for Arbitration: The "New
Litigation." In 2008, he received the D'Alemberte/Raven Award, the highest
honor accorded by the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution, for contributions to
the field. In the fall of 2010 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the London office
of WilmerHale.

Professor Stipanowich is currently an advisor on the ALI Restatement of U.S.
Law on International Arbitration and was Editor-in-Chief of the influential College of Commercial Arbitrators Protocols for Expeditious, Cost Effective
Commercial Arbitration (2010). The Protocols received the 2010 Practical
Achievement Award from the CPR Institute and the 2011 Lawyer as Problem
Solver Award from the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution. He was also co-chair
of the National Roundtable on Consumer and Employment Dispute Resolution,
a facilitated conversation among leading experts that convened at Pepperdine
and Penn State Schools of Law.

Pepperdine's School of Law provides a superior legal education that aligns personal values with areas of interest, such as dispute resolution, religion, public interest, criminal, and entertainment law.